The Shiv Sena on Monday dubbed Congress leaders Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and his father "earthworms", following which they retaliated by calling the Shiv Sena a "black cobra" and questioned its chief's credentials....
Veteran lawyer Fali S Nariman has declined to represent Karnataka before the Supreme Court in the case on sharing of the Cauvery river water with Tamil Nadu, said an official on Monday....
Following the victory of naysayers in a referendum on a peace agreement signed by Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) with the South American country's government, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said on Monday that the outfit will not return to the gun but instead follow the Gandhian principle of non-violence....
Women relatives of 16 persons arrested in the Dadri lynching case continued to stage their sit-in for the third day on Monday to demand the arrest of Jan Mohammad, a brother of deceased Mohammad Akhlaq who was beaten to death by a mob....
As Maharastra's former Deputy Chief Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal marked almost seven months in custody, around two million of his supporters from all over India took to the streets of this city on Monday seeking his release....
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Monday said that the Kashmiri freedom movement would not be suppressed by Indian "brutalities" anymore, even as the political leadership of the country put forward a united front on the issue....
Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist specialising in autophagy and a professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Centre, was on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of the mechanism for autophagy, a process that deals with destruction of cells in the body....
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif here on Monday chaired a meeting of all parliament leaders to discuss the situation at the border with India and the Kashmir issue. Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry briefed the all-party leaders' meeting about the latest situation along the Line of Control, Radio Pakistan reported. The meeting was co...
The Supreme Court on Monday imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on Delhi government Health Minister Satyendra Jain for failing to file an affidavit naming the officials allegedly not co-operating in the efforts to contain the chikungunya and dengue virus. Apparently unhappy over the plea by Delhi government's lawyer seeking time to file the affidavit, a...
The Pakistan army violated ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday by resorting to indiscriminate firing and mortar shelling at Indian positions in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district. Police said the Pakistan army resorted to unprovoked firing and mortar shelling at Indian positions on the LoC in Shahpur area of Poonch district. ...
